Ukrainian Books in the Habsburg Empire: Cultural Contacts of the Orthodox Confraternities with the Byzantine-Rite Slavic Peoples of the Hungarian Kingdom

• In Event: Impacts of Ukrainian Voluntary Brotherhoods of Laymen on the European Book Culture: For the Legacy of Y. D. Isaievych

Abstract

The typographies of Lay Confraternities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth provided the Slavic peoples of the Hungarian Kingdom with liturgical books. Those Serbs who immigrated to the Hungarian Kingdom from the Balkan peninsula imported their Church Slavic books for the Liturgy from the Ukrainian territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Isaievych (2006:64) referred to Ukrainian archival sources evidencing the Lviv Confraternity donated books to the Serbs. Still the Carpatho-Ukrainians must be considered, too, who were Uniates (thus Byzantine Catholics) and imported their books from Ukrainian typographies. We prove it with newly discovered archival sources from Hungarian church archives, such as price lists of books of the Lviv Brotherhoods and marginalia inscriptions in the books

Author

• Sandor Foldvari, U of Debrecen (Hungary)